Texas & region

A 17-year-old girl has died of a gunshot wound to the head after San Antonio police say her brother shot her accidentally while playing with a handgun.

The Bexar County medical examiner’s office says Emily Gonzalez died at University Hospital just before midnight Friday.

Police Sgt. Steven Grover says she and her 22-year-old brother had been alone at their northwest San Antonio home when the shooting happened late Friday night.

ARLINGTON

A freight train has rear-ended a stopped train in Arlington, where at least six derailments since 1998 have raised safety concerns.

Arlington Fire Department Battalion Chief Troy Brooks says three locomotives derailed and three to five cargo containers were crushed when an eastbound train hit one that was stopped late Saturday. Both trains are owned by Union Pacific.

Arlington police say there were no injuries, but the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports at least 600 people were stuck at a charity event after the crash blocked the only exit to Howell Family Farms, which hosts weddings and other events. Cleanup was expected to take hours.

The most serious of the train accidents in Arlington was in 1998, when an Amtrak passenger train carrying 198 people derailed, injuring 22 people.

SAN ANTONIO

Flames have destroyed a 131-year-old office building in downtown San Antonio and damaged the bottom seven floors of a neighboring high-rise.

The flames erupted before dawn Saturday on the first floor of the two-story Wolfson Building, across the street from Military Plaza. The flames gutted the floors and collapsed the street-side walls of the limestone, brick and wood building built in 1880. It also damaged the bottom floors of the 20-story Riverview Towers office building.

Fire Chief Charles Hood said there were no injuries. No cause or damage cost has been determined.

The San Antonio Express-News reports the building was built to house a dry goods and clothing store before serving as the longtime home of a furniture retailer. Most recently, it housed a dance hall and three restaurants.

FORT WORTH

For the first time in 90 years, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has a new headquarters.

Fort Worth energy magnate and Texas Rangers co-chairman Bob Simpson takes over the downtown building that had served as the newspaper’s home from 1921. Sampson has been praised for buying and restoring several historic buildings in downtown Fort Worth.

Meanwhile, the newspaper moved its newsroom and offices over the weekend from the home built by founder Amon G. Carter to five floors of the former Commerce Building down the street. Ironically, the newly renamed 19-story Star-Telegram Building is across the street from the site of the newspaper’s original headquarters replaced by the 1921 building.

The newspaper’s presses had been moved to the southern part of the city in the 1980s.

McALLEN

Ron Paul, antagonist of the Federal Reserve and advocate for the gold standard, probably won’t capture the Republican presidential nomination.

Four months before the initial voting, Paul is having such a big impact on the race that some Republican operatives are convinced that he will play spoiler in important states, siphoning votes and attention from his rivals.

He’s empowered by unconventional but successful fundraising techniques, a more sophisticated campaign than his two previous attempts at the presidency, and a fiery message he’s preached for decades but only now is resonating with Americans concerned about the nation’s debt.

In short, he could prove dangerous for the early front-runners, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.